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of the reign of George the Third, and the latest manufacturers 
were Messrs. Proctor, of Sheffield.” } 
The writer has a specimen which was found in grubbing up a 
hedge near Newbury. Mr. Merriman of Marlborough, also pos- 
sesses one, exhibited at the temporary museum there, in 1859. 
Amongst the numerous bones of the commoner animals which 
have been obtained on this spot are a leg bone and six horns of the 
roebuck (Cervus capreolus), and it is to be noted that they are all 
shed horns, that is, they have fallen off in the usual course, during 
the life of the animals. This leads to the conclusion that herds of 
this deer must have lived in the neighbourhood, in the old times. 
A particular account of the Oldbury White Horse, which was cut 
in 1780, is given in the excellent paper by the Rev. W. C. Plender- 
leath, vicar of the adjoining parish of Cherhill, in the Wiltshire 
Magazine, vol. xiv. 
The Geology of Oldbury Hill is very simple. The upper part of 
it, including the whole of the area occupied by the camp, consists 
of Upper-Chalk, with irregular traces of Tertiary clays and nu- 
merous “ pot-holes,” some of great size. These are usually filled 
with Tertiary clay, containing vast quantities of unrolled flints,? and 
occasional Tertiary pebbles. Many hundreds of tons of flints have 
been dug for road-metal within the camp, so that the surface is 
much disturbed, and the excavations have, alas! been occasionally 
earried to a mischievous extent into the very banks of the fortifi- 
cations. 
It is not surprising that Sir Richard Colt Hoare was impressed 
with “ the deep ravines” which render the camp naturally so strong. 
The flanks of Oldbury especially, and of others of the adjoining 
hills, present some of the most remarkable examples of the “ dry 
1 Athenzeum,” March, 1864. 
2 We must here remark that some of the rarest of the fossil sponges, for which 
Wiltshire is remarkable, have been obtained from the deposit of flints on the top 
of this hill. Many of these are now in the Museum in Jermyn St. 
3 A remarkable outlier of a bed of clay with flints and similar pebbles occurs 
as a deposit of drift, on the top of the hill near Monkton Farleigh. This was 
contemporaneous and probably continuous with the beds on Oldbury Hill, but 
the intervening strata have since been washed away. 
